If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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